Fresh, Hot Wastes of Time

Step One: Sweet Sharing Kitties Step Two: Have a Bath Step Three: The Simultaneous Neck Gnaw Step Four: WAR!1!! Step Five: The Tiki God Tires of the Antics of the Felines and has Crashed Down in Wrath

Red and Jasper Originally uploaded by addlepated Have I introduced you to Red yet? Red is Jasper’s littermate. How we came about him was this: When we were out of town and had the cats boarding at the vet, Jasper developed a cough. The vet x-rayed his chest to make sure his lungs were clear [...]

This year our tamales were made with: Lard we rendered ourselves, Feral hog we killed and butchered ourselves, And serranos we grew in the garden. On another note, I was baking chocolate chip cookies earlier and was moving one of the loaded cooling racks around and one of its supports collapsed and ka-WHOOSH, there was [...]

Max lost his purr. He’s been one lonesome kittyman since Icey’s been gone. Stuck to me like glue, and gained a pound to boot. He’s just not happy being an only child – something similar happened happened when Maddie died. So we got Max a kitten. Meet Jasper. He’s a red spotted tabby Oriental shorthair, [...]

Icey took a turn for the worse on Monday night, and by yesterday she was in bad shape. I made the difficult decision to put her to sleep. She laid in my arms and purred until she was gone. I brought her home so we could bury her in the back with all the other [...]

Icey wasn’t looking quite as pink and plucky this week, so we took her in for a blood check. I haven’t updated with the previous news, which was that her red blood cell count was up in the 30s and the vet was very pleased with her progress. I thought that I might jinx it [...]

Quick note to say that Icey is hanging in there. The vet was more optimistic about her PCV last week (18%), and in fact thought she was doing well enough to start treatment (Atopica, a.k.a. cyclosporine) to knock down her immune system, which will keep it from attacking her bone marrow. That might giver her [...]

I spent a long day at the vet office today. It’s a specialty hospital, meaning the regular cases don’t normally go there, only the stuff that everyday vets can’t treat. Icey’s condition – aplastic anemia – certainly qualifies. I didn’t have a good feeling going in. Icey felt feverish and she was lethargic. In the [...]